TABLE 3.

Germplasms of selected orphan crops conserved under different types of germplasm storage.

Crop	Long term seed collection (%)	Medium-term seed collection (%)	Short term seed collection (%)	Seed collection (%)	Cryopreserved seeds (%)	Field collections (%)	DNA collection (%)	Others/Not specified (%)	Source of information
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana)	36.47	37.68	0.07	7.29			0.03	18.46	GENESYS
Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)	24.34	8.15	3.53	60.75	0.005	0.33		2.90
Barnyard millet (Echinochloa spp.)	29.62	31.73		19.75	0.16		0.08	18.66
Buckwheat millet (Fagopyrum spp.)	31.96	7.61		42.41		0.18		17.84
Fonio (Digitaria sp.)	32.86	21.43	1.43	37.14				7.14
Little millet (Panicum sumatrense)	40.32	40.58	0.09	18.84				0.17
African yam bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa)	10	49.15	0.1	37.87				2.87
African winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)	4.14	5.56	0.13	24.97		0.13		65.07
Amaranthus (Amaranth spp.)	31.14	9.10	1.88	36.94	0.05	0.02		20.87
Moth bean (Vigna aconitifolia)	23.05	3.17	2.02	38.04		0.29		33.43
Bambara nut (Vigna subterranea)	30.01	31.59		35.13				3.27
Jatropha (Jatropha curcas)	5.86	18.05	0.16	0.81		74.31	0.81
Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis)	1.82	1.21	1.21	63.97		11.13		20.66
Camelina (Camelina sativa)	57.22	18.63		15.56		0.68	7.91
Castor bean (Ricinus communis)	18.36	23.89		52.78	0.02	0.85		4.10
Teff (Eragrostis tef)	3.01	0.42		31.50				65.07